When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

A major independent power producer’s (IPP’s) merchant fleet includes dozens of gas-fired combined-cycle plants of 3 x 1, 2 x 1, and 1 x 1 configurations. Nearly all have triple-drum heat-recovery ...

Image by Kevin Clark via Chat GPT 5.2. As a follow-up to the recent condenser performance monitoring series for Factor This Power Engineering, I am revisiting a topic from several years ago. It ...

How low can you go? That’s the question owners of gas turbine combined cycle plants are asking these days as they are being called upon to operate those units for rapid response in markets where load ...